Corn prices surge to record high for the year as traders question prospects for record harvest Star Tribune | Corn prices surged to a record high for the year Friday as traders questioned whether crop yields will fall short of expectations. | Corn for December delivery rose 17 cents, or 3.8 percent, to settle at $4.6450 a bushel. The price was just shy of the June 2009 record of $4.70 per bushel for the D...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks, dollar rise on signs recovery on track The Guardian * Risk assets rally on jobs report, falter on other data * Dollar rallies versus yen after U.S. jobs data * U.S. bonds fall sharply, then pare losses on ISM report * Oil flip-flops, falls after services sector news (Updates with close of European markets) By Herbert Lash NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) -...
For Democrats, Economy Fuels Election Fears The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Democrats are entering the fall sprint to the midterm elections lacking a unifying message to address the lackluster economy, scrambling to come up with further job-creating remedies and out of time to show substantial results be...
The legacy of seven years in Iraq Irish Times | Has anything good come out of the occupation of Iraq? In the week that President Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission there, commentators are starting to count the final cost of George Bush's nation-building project, writes LARA ...
H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money The New York Times | JOHANNESBURG — When scientists celebrated the announcement in July that a vaginal microbicide had finally been found that significantly reduced H.I.V. infections in women, there was still a prosaic — though essential — piece of th...
Oil's range-bound conditions catch out price bulls - analysts Daily Star Lebanon | Saturday, September 04, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Alex Lawler | Reuters | LONDON: An oil market that has traded mostly between $70 to $80 a barrel in 2010 has caught out some of the oil bulls on Wall Street calling for higher prices, and some now...
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IEA Predicts Greater Reliance on OPEC Oil Wall Street Journal By RAKESH SHARMA | NEW DELHI—The global dependency on the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for oil will rise in the next five to 10 years as produ...
Bernanke Says He Failed to See Financial Flaws Herald Tribune | WASHINGTON — Ben S. Bernanke, who told Congress in 2007 that the subprime mortgage crisis was “likely to be contained,” said Thursday that he had failed to r...
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Gazprom to double gas purchases in Azerbaijan RBC News | RBC, 03.09.2010, Baku 13:56:58.Gazprom and State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have signed a supplemental agreement to the existing contra...
The legacy of seven years in Iraq Irish Times | Has anything good come out of the occupation of Iraq? In the week that President Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission there, commentators are starting to count the final cost of George Bush's nation-building project, writes LARA ...
H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money The New York Times | JOHANNESBURG — When scientists celebrated the announcement in July that a vaginal microbicide had finally been found that significantly reduced H.I.V. infections in women, there was still a prosaic — though essential — piece of th...
How real is the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq? The Hindu | Atul Aneja | There is enough indication that the Iraqi occupation has not ended and has merely been repackaged. | Under cover of darkness, hundreds of armoured vehicles rumbled across the Iraqi border into Kuwait, marking the much-touted withdrawal...
Bernanke Says He Failed to See Financial Flaws Herald Tribune | WASHINGTON — Ben S. Bernanke, who told Congress in 2007 that the subprime mortgage crisis was “likely to be contained,” said Thursday that he had failed to recognize flaws in the financial system that amplified the housing downturn and led to an economic disaster. AC = 1234 | --> | Under pointed but polite questioning from me...
Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett's Girl, Dies at 76 The New York Times | Cammie King, who as a cherubic little girl played the daughter of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind,” then enjoyed something of a fan following at film festivals, died on Wednesday at her home in Fort Bragg, Calif. She was 76. MGM, via Photofest | Cammie King and Clark Gable in a scene from the 1939 film â€...
